I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.